[PACKAGE UPDATE]: grace-5.1.14-1 - WITHDRAWN

Harold L Hunt II huntharo@msu.edu
Fri Jan 16 19:40:00 GMT 2004


Volker,

Okay, with this additional info, I suggest rebuilding your 5.1.12 
version against the new LessTif libs and on an updated Cygwin 
installation and see if that build works.

Harold

Volker Quetschke wrote:

> Hi Harold,
> 
>>> grace 5.1.14 crashes under certain circumstances. The 5.1.12 version
>>> doesn't! (All libraries linked in static)
> 
> OK, this was very confusing, what I meant was that 5.1.12 was linked
> using static libraries. I'm even not sure if this was really the case,
> but the executable is 1 meg bigger than the 5.1.14 version and lesstif
> was not required for the this version to run.
> Unfortunately cygcheck doesn't give infos about libraries used for
> grace 5.1.12 at all, propably because it is an old cygwin 1.13.x
> program.
> 
> grace 5.1.14 is using the shared lesstif libraries, I forgot the
> dependency to lesstif in the first place, so I know for sure ;-)
> 
>> Hmm... that could be part of the problem.  I do not know that the 
>> LessTif static libraries even work anymore after the changes we made 
>> to make Xt and LessTif as shared libraries.  You should try linking 
>> against the shared libs and see if it works as expected.
> 
> 
> That's the way it is done.
> 
> Volker
> 



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